Shall we anticipate the FIFTH SEASON of the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

wondering if walt doesn't just go after the nazis because he's mad they took his money

if he was gonna do that why bother growing the hair back

Planning phase

GTA V release delays his planning

ha, naw theres another shoe to drop

i really appreciate dean norris' complete hatred of walter white

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someone just RTed that from a couple days ago lol

the contrast between the phone calls that bookended the episode was (like everything else) pretty brutal. Even with the formulation of the lie there was a brief look at the side of Walt that's been missing for so long, and then immediately any possibility of that side returning was snuffed out with everything finally going well and truly to hell - it hadn't really come to mind that, as implausible as it would have been, before Hank's death everything could still have worked out okay for Walt's family.

i had no idea there were breaking bad bar nights, i imagine this one was good for sales

def one of the most intense hours of tv i've seen.

I think it's pretty clear where things are going, but the writers are very good at the false telegraph, so it doesn't really matter. but the current setup is walt has disappeared, jesse is enslaved, and the rest of the whites are exposed. the nazi-todd-lydia is a shaky alignment fraught with combustibility. the only worth walt has to anybody is his skill. if something prevents jesse from cooking, the nazis need walt, and the only option they have is to threaten his family to bring him back.

also, "I'm sorry for your loss"

ha yes todd is the best

never change, todd

todd actually was responsible for both walt and jesse getting out of there
his uncle would've shot walt to begin with but todd apparently would never forgive him for that, for some reason

todd is awesome, in the sense that you don't know at all what he's thinking or what his plan is

Yeah lol'ed at "sorry for your loss"...Did he mean Hank or the money?

this episode, god damn.

the problem/rabid dog jesse being put on essentially a dog leash was a fitting touch

i'm wondering again if that long abusive tirade over the phone winding up with calling skyler a stupid bitch was supposed to be interpreted as one more 'redemptive' gesture by walt - intentionally letting the police overhear him - and whether we're supposed to be okay with that

because what he's doing is demanding that she continue to be complicit by going along with more lies, right? if this conversation was to try and 'save' skyler from legal trouble, and she goes along with it, she's going to have to lie to the police and keep lying to marie and walt jr and going along with walt's version of events

yeah, exactly: that and more and that you see all that is what makes the show so goddamn good.

was that opening scene a direct lift from s1? for a good while i thought some internet japester had made a particularly skilled-trollblag torrent and the whole episode would be from back then

naw it was a new scene

cranston keeping with the 'warm but firm dad' tone then flipping to JUST DO WHAT I SAY to walt jr was next-level acting - again one of those everyday suburban scenes elevated to real horror

xp, serious or you japestering? i believe nothing anymore :(

not japestering!

don't want to pick holes as that - and the rest of the series - has been some incredible 'golden age of tv' stuff but i did wince a little at the scene of him rolling the barrel with that olde timey song in the background. i mean i liked it as a wtf but it jarred slightly with what just happened

haha ok, aaron paul really did look 4 (or however many years since s1) years younger though. ballsy as hell to open with such a sweet cutesy flashback after the devastation the last ep ended on

rolling the barrel and buying the truck scenes seemed very coen brothers and i didn't care for that part

maybe it was shot for the first season and never used idk, i was thinking jesse looked a lil more ragged than in s1 tho

i expect the next ep will focus more on jesse, he was barely in this one. total end of seat mouth open nooooo when it looked like he was going to be killed just a minute after hank. man what a fucking show, almost feels like an honour to be watching this 'live'

ive always felt breaking bad was pretty coenesque

oh the barrel roll was some great sierra madre stuff. if they had more time they could have done a great bottle episode with just walt and the barrel.

another nice touch - the way Walt yelled at Walt Jr when he wouldn't start packing. Obviously it wasn't out of animosity, more just anxiety due to the situation crumbling, but he's never really yelled like that at his son, and you could kind of read in Walt Jr's reaction that he was stunned by his very different, intense demeanor, and that he was seeing the other side of his father in person for the first time.

xxxpost (GODDAMMIT someone just posted this exact thing)

that sensation when we're watching marie look already-wiped-out and *then* she hears walt on the phone say 'you'll never see hank again'. top 10 most affecting tv moments ever

btw p sure you could piece together this entire ep via predictions made upthread

yeah, this episode was good and pretty brutal, but maybe one of the most predictable yet. it was definitely the tying up the loose threads episode.

nice to see that walt finally learned to roll a barrel though.

someone needs to make a flow chart of lives that Walt has directly or indirectly ruined since S1.

Man, what a crazy episode of Low Winter Sun this was

haha

ballsy as hell to open with such a sweet cutesy flashback after the devastation the last ep ended on

come on, it was pretty predictable that they would do some kind of slow open before getting back to the standoff.

yeah, this episode was good and pretty brutal, but maybe one of the most predictable yet. it was definitely the tying up the loose threads episode.

Yeah, I think what makes the last two episodes exciting is that the shoes we've been waiting to drop have dropped w/ Hank and Gomie dying, Walt finding out about his dad, etc. Much more wide open now.

I have a bad feeling Skyler will bite it and Walt Jr will wind up in foster care.

some of the s1 RV cook scene was old footage and some was new, right? I think the aaron paul stuff was all old? and the new stuff was just walt on the phone off in the distance.

someone's committing suicide in the next ep. I feel it.

wtf was Jesse doing in the background while Walt was on the phone? martial arts? couldn't stop LOLing at him in the background the whole time.

22 minutes into the episode they were still showing credits!

Xpost Walt's underpants made it 'ballsy'

come on, it was pretty predictable that they would do some kind of slow open before getting back to the standoff.

yeah you're right. i guess i wasn't thinking in tv-making terms, more in a waiting-a-all-day-to-see-what-happened finger-drumming mode, expecting it to slam right back with the action. weird little bit at the end of that where walt then the van did a cheap 'disappear fade' effect, balked a bit at that

yeah the fade was weird

thanks to this thread I kept giggling imagining Walt saying "White power" and shooting the Nazis.

how far gone am I that the most tense thing for me in this episode was knowing that Skyler was parked behind Walt during the confrontation at home?

todd was pretty fascinating this episode. seemed to wipe a tear watching walt in agony after seeing hank die, then kindof saving jesse but then promising to kill him in due time. then wordlessly taking jesse from the pit and shackling him up in the cook room. can't work out if he was bullshitting walt and wants to somehow let jesse live, or if he's just milking every last bit of use from him before sending out to seed (would suit the kid-killing version of todd ive got in my mind)